It took two days to pack up the house and put it in a 40 foot container. I was surprised to learn we still had a bit of room left. We should have bought some more groceries from Switzerland to take back.
It was hot weather for Switzerland at around 22-25 degrees, unseasonably warm for early April. After the packers left each day Sunny and I would get out the paint brushes and start touching up the pain marks on the walls. On the Wednesday night we didnt finish until late but on Thursday we finished the paint and dumped the leftover rubbish before walking down to the train station and heading to Lucerne for dinner with Jinsu and the kids.
Funnily enough Sunny had a craving for Korean food so we went to the Korea town restaurant, on entry we were very suspicious that the food was actually chines but after meeting the Korean lady who owned the place we settled in. The kids had fun and we enjoyed the kimchi chigae, Bulgogi, ori (duck) and mandu (dumplings).
It was a warm evening so we strolled back past the cool bars and hotels in Lucerne. One place called the Hotel had giant portraits over the walls and ceiling in each room. We always find the cool stuff just before leaving. It was a similar experience in HK when we discovered the Top of the Town bar and restaurant with harbor views at 39th floor of the excelsior hotel in Causeway bay. Outside the music hall in Lucerne there were lots of people sitting in front of the fountain on the waterfront playing music, drinking and chatting. It was great and the view over the lake and the classical buildings of the casino, Montana hotel and Gutsch on the hill was spectacular.
We will have good memories of Switzerland
Friday morning
The taxi took quite a while to pack and we had over 150 kg of luggage including three strollers, 3 boxes and four suitcases. five of us sat in three seats while the luggage and driver took the remainder. We had priority checkin but it didn't help, the checkin took over one hour because Samuel had his own seat on a separate booking so they couldn't fix it on the system so they wrote out the boarding passes by hand, told us to take the rest of the baggage to bulky items and get to the gate asap. We rushed our goodbye with jinsu and pointed her in the direction of the lufthansa checkin as we raced for the passport control.
When we finally got to the gate we were the last to board and the attendant had the cheek to tell us to board immediately before getting our boarding passes back.
The flight was pretty long and the boys were totally out of their daily rhythm and slept all through the day we arrived and were awake all last night.
This afternoon I took them down to the pool for a swim and we had a lot of fun splashing about and floating around in the blow up toys boat. This seems to have tired them earlier so hopefully we can get a reasonable night sleep tonight.
